USI College of Liberal Arts to welcome award-winning poets for National Poetry Month

The College of Liberal Arts and Southern Indiana Review (SIR) celebrates National Poetry Month with visiting writer Mitchell L. H. Douglas and USI’s Rosalie Moffett. This poetry reading will be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Kleymeyer Hall (LA 0101), located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center and is followed by a reception in the MAC/Pace Galleries. The event is open to the public at no charge.

Douglas is the author of dying in the scarecrow’s arms, winner of the Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award, and Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem, an NAACP Image Award and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee. His poetry has appeared in Callaloo, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (University of Georgia Press), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books), Crab Orchard Review and Ninth Letter, among others. He is a cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets, a Cave Canem graduate and an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis. 

Moffett is the author of the just released Making a Living from Milkweed Editions; Nervous System, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book; and June in Eden, winner of The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Narrative, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, and the Senior Poetry Editor for the Southern Indiana Review. 

For more information about this event, contact Casey Pycior, USI Associate Professor of English, at cpycior@usi.edu.